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Windows NT Host Security Integration provides a simplified logon procedure
and maintains multiple passwords that you may need for accessing Windows NT
and host security domains. This feature provides
- secure storage for user host accounts
- tools for maintaining the same password in all
environments
- automatic logon to host computers in an enterprise computing environment.
This approach coordinates existing host security
databases,
rather than forcing a migration to a single, shared security database.
Windows NT Host Security Integration contains these components, which
must be installed and configured:
- Host Account Synchronization Service
- supports third-party interfaces to various host security
databases in order to coordinate password changes between Windows NT security
and the respective hosts. For example, this service sends information about
password changes in the Windows NT domain to host computers or sends notification
of host password changes to the Windows NT Account Synchronization Service.
You install this service during configuration of the Microsoft SNA Server.
This feature is installed by selecting the Security Integration Service option
of SNA Server Setup.
- Windows NT Account Synchronization Service
- synchronizes passwords between the host and the Windows
NT domain. When passwords are changed in either the Windows NT domain or on
the host, this service updates the Host Account Cache and the other host domains
through the Host Account Synchronization service. Users may then access files,
printers, databases, messaging systems, and other applications throughout
the network using the same password. The Windows NT Account Synchronization
service coordinates internal operation of the other services and must be installed
even if automatic password synchronization is not installed.
You install this service on the Primary Domain Controller. Installation
software and instructions are located in the SNA Server HOSTSEC folder.
- Host Account Cache
- contains a database that maps host user IDs and passwords
to Windows NT usernames and passwords. The Host Account Cache service runs
on primary domain controllers of Windows NT domains in which the SNA Server
is running. One Host Account Cache can be shared among many SNA Server subdomains.
You install this service on the Primary Domain Controller. Installation
software and instructions are located in the SNA Server HOSTSEC folder.
For complete details about installing these services, see Microsoft
SNA Server Getting Started and Installing and Configuring Host
Security Integration. This document is available from the Microsoft
Corporation.
Copyright 1999 by SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA. All rights reserved.
